Arthur A. Goldberg

Important information is missing from this article or section. Help Wikipedia by researching and pasting it .

Arthur Abba Goldberg (born November 25, 1940 ) is a doctor of law from Jersey , New Jersey . He was Managing Director of NARTH , Co-Founder and Co-Director of JONAH ( Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality ), President of PATH ( Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality ) and Chairman of the International Center for Gender Affirming Processes (CGAP).

Goldberg was involved in the American civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s and represented the NAACP as a lawyer. He was a professor at the University of Connecticut , faculty of law, and intermittent assistant attorney general of New Jersey .

Goldberg, together with co-director Elain Sildor Berk, uses Jewish legal texts and scientific studies to uncover the individual roots of same-sex attraction and helps those who are unhappy with their lifestyle re-establish their gender identity and change their lives.

In 2008 he wrote the book Light in the Closet: Torah, Homosexuality, and the Power to Change. written, which should appear in July 2008. The book has a chapter on homosexual parents . Referring to a book by Dawn Stefanowicz , whose father was sexually abused during his childhood in the 1960s and 1970s , later became a promiscuous gay adult and, according to her description, took care of his emotional needs more so that she felt unwanted, says Goldberg that this is educational and important as it shows the consequences of gay and lesbian parents. Goldberg believes that the well-known homosexual lifestyle of homosexual parents is not good for children.

He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Institute for Youth and Society (DIJG). In 1999 he was one of the founders of the organization Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality (JONAH) and acted as its "co-director" until it was sentenced in 2015 to high compensation payments to the victims of its "therapies" for fraudulent and immoral business practices and on court orders was dissolved. Goldberg has since been legally prohibited from promoting or practicing “reparative therapies” or similar dubious practices, at least in New Jersey state.

Works

• Light in the Closet: Torah, Homosexuality, and the Power to Change. Red Heifer Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9631478-9-9 .

Footnotes

1. ^ NARTH : NARTH Officers , accessed April 8, 2010 2008.
2. ↑ DIJG : Bulletin 1/2008 p. 32, also as a PDF document .
3. ↑ Seth Mandel in the Jewisch State ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , November 9, 2007. "Goldberg, together with JONAH co-director Elaine Silodor Berk, uses Jewish law texts and scientific study to get to the individual root causes of SSA - same sex attraction - and help those who are unhappy with their lifestyle reassert their gender identity and change their life. " 
4. ↑ Red Heifer Press: catalog ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , retrieved July 19th 2008 
5. ↑ Washington Times : Growing up Confused , May 5, 2008; seen April 8, 2010
6. ↑ The German Institute for Youth and Society has a scientific advisory board. German Institute for Youth and Society, January 2010, accessed on April 29, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Mark Joseph Stern: Consumer Fraud Lawsuit Forces Ex-Gay Conversion Therapy Group to Pay Victims and Disband . In: slate , December 21, 2015.
8. ^ Judgment ( Civil Action ) of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Hudson County, Law Division, (Docket No. L-5734-12) , effective December 18, 2015.